Written by YES! Coordinator Erin Nordquist The Melrose Middle School YES! team is building bat boxes to put in their community. If your team is interested in helping preserve an important part of Minnesota ecosystems, more info on bat boxes, including plans to build them, can be found here. When most people think of bats, they have a reaction that goes a little like, “EWW!” From popular culture to
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ACGC YES! Team implements BMP by installing tree trench at school
Written by YES! Coordinator Ali Dahmes “It is so great to be a part of something that positively affects the community in which we live,” recalls Gabra Lokken, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) YES! coach while observing their tree trench. Although it is mostly completed, there were many substantial steps along the way. The Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District (MFCRWD) applied and received
ACGC switches to LED lights in School Parking Lot
Guest blog post submitted by ACGC YES! Team During the 2015-2016 year, the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) YES! team was given a $1,000 grant to go towards LED lights for the parking lot of our school. This grant was provided by the McKnight Foundation. As of 9/30/16, we have 14 out of 37 light fixtures switched over to LED. We plan to get them all switched over in the coming years. As soon as
NL-S YES! Team Highlights Local Food/School Gardening Project
Guest Blog Post by the New London-Spicer YES! Team The New London-Spicer (NL-S) YES! Local Food/School Gardening McKnight Foundation project began with constructing grow light stands for indoor herbal plant starts. YES! collaborated with the shop class to build the stands which were used in the 7th-8th grade science classes and in two elementary classrooms. Herbs were started and transplanted to
Designing an Electric Vehicle
By Northeast YES! Coordinator Jim DeVries The Youth Energy Summit (YES!) team at Cherry School was very interested in learning about how Electric Vehicles work. Instead of researching information on the internet or test driving one, they decided the best way to learn how they work is to build one! With the realization that a full blown passenger car would be too big of an undertaking, not to
Westbrook-Walnut Grove Volunteer Day 2016
Guest Blog Post by the WWG YES! Team On Wednesday, October 19, the WWG Earth YES! team invited all high school to help start a year of giving back to the community. These students took the first part of their M.E.A. break to help rake neighborhood lawns. Bringing their own rakes, over 50 kids showed up to support the effort started by 10 Earth YES! Students. The students in Earth YES! wanted to